Van de Laar, Tjeerd
... Some time ago I got introduced to the philosophy of mind of Max Velmans1. At first I had a hard time understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially ...
... Some time ago I got introduced to the philosophy of mind of Max Velmans1. At first I had a hard time understanding his so called reflexive monism in which he combines an epistemological dualism with an ontological (dual-aspect) monism. Soon I got quite enthousiastic about Velmans’ theory, especially ...
6 Endogenous Knowledge: Implications for Sustainable Development
... shown to provide valuable orientation in times of uncertainty in which tradi tional risk-reducing land use strategies lose their relevance, for example, due to changes in the climate, in value orientation, or in land tenure rights (Rist et al 2003). This is in line with results from work carried ou ...
... shown to provide valuable orientation in times of uncertainty in which tradi tional risk-reducing land use strategies lose their relevance, for example, due to changes in the climate, in value orientation, or in land tenure rights (Rist et al 2003). This is in line with results from work carried ou ...
Form, function and the matter of experience
... 1936/2001; 1937/2001). Are robots to be conceived of as subjects that truly experience their perceiving and acting upon the world? Or are they merely artificially signaling or behaving as if they do? At least sometimes some robots seem to move around with a purpose, they seem to avoid difficulties a ...
... 1936/2001; 1937/2001). Are robots to be conceived of as subjects that truly experience their perceiving and acting upon the world? Or are they merely artificially signaling or behaving as if they do? At least sometimes some robots seem to move around with a purpose, they seem to avoid difficulties a ...
Sunflowers, Sardines and Responsive Combodying: Three
... One’s thoughts are no doubt influenced by his or her background, and the thoughts elaborated in this paper are no exception. I will briefly introduce my background as it might provide a road map for the reader to grasp some of the thoughts presented in this paper. Having being born and raised in Jap ...
... One’s thoughts are no doubt influenced by his or her background, and the thoughts elaborated in this paper are no exception. I will briefly introduce my background as it might provide a road map for the reader to grasp some of the thoughts presented in this paper. Having being born and raised in Jap ...
Selecting Integrated Approach for Knowledge Representation by
... metarules.They pertain to other rules (or even to themselves). Inference (procedural) rules may look like this: Rule 1: IF the data needed are not in the system, THEN request them from the user. Rule 2: IF more than one rule applies, and THEN deactivate any rules that add no new data. III. SELECTION ...
... metarules.They pertain to other rules (or even to themselves). Inference (procedural) rules may look like this: Rule 1: IF the data needed are not in the system, THEN request them from the user. Rule 2: IF more than one rule applies, and THEN deactivate any rules that add no new data. III. SELECTION ...
Behavioral and Neural Properties of Social Reinforcement Learning
... Experiment cover story. The experiment was conducted during two the three peers was presented for two seconds (Cue). During the two separate sessions. The first session introduced the cover story, leading seconds, the stimulus would wink for 500 ms in either the left or right eye, participants to be ...
... Experiment cover story. The experiment was conducted during two the three peers was presented for two seconds (Cue). During the two separate sessions. The first session introduced the cover story, leading seconds, the stimulus would wink for 500 ms in either the left or right eye, participants to be ...
Logic in Cognitive Science: Bridging the Gap between Symbolic and
... (2) D; (3) D, 3, and 7; (4) D and 7. The classically correct answer ranks fourth, while an instance of affirming the consequent (i.e. judging that 3 is relevant for determining if the rule is correct) ranks first. Wason’s robust and easily reproducible results seem to show that most people are poor ...
... (2) D; (3) D, 3, and 7; (4) D and 7. The classically correct answer ranks fourth, while an instance of affirming the consequent (i.e. judging that 3 is relevant for determining if the rule is correct) ranks first. Wason’s robust and easily reproducible results seem to show that most people are poor ...
3. Hume - CSUN.edu
... heat or cold, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception and never can observe anything but the perception.” a. Hume denies the existence of a continuous selfidentity. How then does he account for our concept of self? b. Hume compares the mind to “a k ...
... heat or cold, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception and never can observe anything but the perception.” a. Hume denies the existence of a continuous selfidentity. How then does he account for our concept of self? b. Hume compares the mind to “a k ...
Specious Present - Philsci
... time was sufficiently extended as to include a portion of that movement. The way in which the specious present is described can sound self‐ contradictory. It involves attributing to the experience at a given moment of consciousness contents that must span some non‐zero interval of physical time. I ...
... time was sufficiently extended as to include a portion of that movement. The way in which the specious present is described can sound self‐ contradictory. It involves attributing to the experience at a given moment of consciousness contents that must span some non‐zero interval of physical time. I ...
A MANUSCRIPT OF KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
... Thabit & Yaser / A Manuscript of Knowledge Representation conceptualization which means entities and relationships between them. These are implicit or explicit conceptualization for each information base. Ontology provides a means to classify the things, which are exists and also organized in a sys ...
... Thabit & Yaser / A Manuscript of Knowledge Representation conceptualization which means entities and relationships between them. These are implicit or explicit conceptualization for each information base. Ontology provides a means to classify the things, which are exists and also organized in a sys ...
On Multi-Robot Area Coverage
... structures such as the visibility graph for environment representation do not suffer those restrictions (Rekleitis et al. 2004). However, while traversing a visibility graph guarantees covering the whole environment in continuous spaces, it might include many redundant movements. ...
... structures such as the visibility graph for environment representation do not suffer those restrictions (Rekleitis et al. 2004). However, while traversing a visibility graph guarantees covering the whole environment in continuous spaces, it might include many redundant movements. ...
Mundane
... actions, to make computational responses a better fit for the actions in which users are engaged; and they look for opportunities to tie computational and physical activities together in such a way that a computer withdraws into the activity, so that users engage directly with the tasks at hand and ...
... actions, to make computational responses a better fit for the actions in which users are engaged; and they look for opportunities to tie computational and physical activities together in such a way that a computer withdraws into the activity, so that users engage directly with the tasks at hand and ...
How Popper`s `Three Worlds Theory` Resembles Moscovici`s
... Whereas we cannot ‘prove’ a theory by means of any number of empirical confirmations (or any statistically significant result), we can – at least by means of formal logic – disprove it through a single disconfirming observation. Hence, we do not need the principle of induction to prove the possibili ...
... Whereas we cannot ‘prove’ a theory by means of any number of empirical confirmations (or any statistically significant result), we can – at least by means of formal logic – disprove it through a single disconfirming observation. Hence, we do not need the principle of induction to prove the possibili ...
Confucian Ethics in the Analects as Virtue Ethics
... In contrast, modern treatments of morality (and much of the contemporary assumptions regarding morality) focus on assessing certain kinds of questions that favor actions as the center of moral inquiry, what one could think of as a local approach to morality. In the modern developments of ethical th ...
... In contrast, modern treatments of morality (and much of the contemporary assumptions regarding morality) focus on assessing certain kinds of questions that favor actions as the center of moral inquiry, what one could think of as a local approach to morality. In the modern developments of ethical th ...
Interpretivist Approaches to Organizational Discourse
... developed by Head and Bartlett, the concept of schema has since become a central construct of cognitive psychology (Rumelhart, 1984). A schema is ‘a cognitive structure that consists in part of the representation of some stimulus domain. The schema contains general knowledge about that domain, inclu ...
... developed by Head and Bartlett, the concept of schema has since become a central construct of cognitive psychology (Rumelhart, 1984). A schema is ‘a cognitive structure that consists in part of the representation of some stimulus domain. The schema contains general knowledge about that domain, inclu ...
KNOWLEDGE, REPRESENTATION, AND RATIONAL SELF
... it is often quite the rational thing to do. Taking action requires information about the available actions, about their expected consequences, and about the utility of these consequences to the agent. Ordinarily, obtaining such information requires effort, it being costly to acquire the raw data and ...
... it is often quite the rational thing to do. Taking action requires information about the available actions, about their expected consequences, and about the utility of these consequences to the agent. Ordinarily, obtaining such information requires effort, it being costly to acquire the raw data and ...
Causal Mechanisms and Process Patterns
... that social pathways are indeed the wider category within which both causal mechanism and other forms of recurrent sequences such as process patterns have their place. In the next section, I present the most typical usage of social pathways as causal mechanisms. Causal mechanisms are conventionally ...
... that social pathways are indeed the wider category within which both causal mechanism and other forms of recurrent sequences such as process patterns have their place. In the next section, I present the most typical usage of social pathways as causal mechanisms. Causal mechanisms are conventionally ...
The Development of Intergroup Social Cognition
... self-conscious manner, in order to help us understand both the divergence between conscious and unconscious cognition and aspects of conscious cognition that are direct representations of preferences and decisions about social groups. For our purposes, we take the distinction between the conscious a ...
... self-conscious manner, in order to help us understand both the divergence between conscious and unconscious cognition and aspects of conscious cognition that are direct representations of preferences and decisions about social groups. For our purposes, we take the distinction between the conscious a ...
Grounding conceptual knowledge in modality
... and modal approaches to representing knowledge. In amodal approaches, sensorimotor representations are transduced into an amodal representation, such as a feature list, semantic network, or frame (Fig. 1a). Amodal representations that reside outside sensorimotor systems redescribe sensorimotor state ...
... and modal approaches to representing knowledge. In amodal approaches, sensorimotor representations are transduced into an amodal representation, such as a feature list, semantic network, or frame (Fig. 1a). Amodal representations that reside outside sensorimotor systems redescribe sensorimotor state ...
preprint
... 2009; Cuijpers et al., 2006). These models often perform well at describing and predicting human behavior on small, wellstructured experimental tasks. For instance, Bayesian models have been able to succesfully model human inferences about an agent’s goal in a maze-like structure given the trajector ...
... 2009; Cuijpers et al., 2006). These models often perform well at describing and predicting human behavior on small, wellstructured experimental tasks. For instance, Bayesian models have been able to succesfully model human inferences about an agent’s goal in a maze-like structure given the trajector ...
ni.uni-osnabrueck.de - Cognitive Science
... Even if we assume that the rich and loaded (but profound and profoundly important) concepts of general intelligence (GI) and creativity have both been rigorously defined to everyone’s satisfaction, my title has no fixed, univocal meaning in the absence of how to understand ‘Require’. Suppose that we ...
... Even if we assume that the rich and loaded (but profound and profoundly important) concepts of general intelligence (GI) and creativity have both been rigorously defined to everyone’s satisfaction, my title has no fixed, univocal meaning in the absence of how to understand ‘Require’. Suppose that we ...
Robots and rights report 1.2 - Biocentre
... therefore raises no fundamentally new moral issues. As with any other tool there are issues surrounding the ways in which we use them and about who has responsibility when things go wrong. However, the tools themselves have no ...
... therefore raises no fundamentally new moral issues. As with any other tool there are issues surrounding the ways in which we use them and about who has responsibility when things go wrong. However, the tools themselves have no ...
Knowledge Representation
... poor J. Teresko. Information Rich, Knowledge Poor? Data warehouses transform information into competitive intelligence. Industry Week, 3rd Feb, ...
... poor J. Teresko. Information Rich, Knowledge Poor? Data warehouses transform information into competitive intelligence. Industry Week, 3rd Feb, ...
Sociotechnical Roles for Sociotechnical Systems - A
... role, which may be taken by various persons – and instance – a role being taken by a concrete person (role owner) – has to be considered. In Communities, the existence of a “facilitator role” can generally be accepted at the level of the class. Nevertheless, not every person is allowed to take this ...
... role, which may be taken by various persons – and instance – a role being taken by a concrete person (role owner) – has to be considered. In Communities, the existence of a “facilitator role” can generally be accepted at the level of the class. Nevertheless, not every person is allowed to take this ...
Agent definitions - Computer Science
... • The complexity of such a system or the fact that we can not know or predict the internal structure of all components seems to imply that we must rely on animistic, intentional explanation of system functioning and behaviour. • We thus come again to the idea presented in the beginning: try to appl ...
... • The complexity of such a system or the fact that we can not know or predict the internal structure of all components seems to imply that we must rely on animistic, intentional explanation of system functioning and behaviour. • We thus come again to the idea presented in the beginning: try to appl ...